Here is another masterpiece from the 8th International match book. In the real game white played 21-17 to draw. When I analysed this position for book - I find out that 24-20 is much stronger and seems to be a win. When I submitted analyses to another person, member of team - he questioned about winning status of 24-20.

Hi, Matthew ! Thanks for quick reply, this is soooooo unusual ! Your 1-5 is interesting, but still looks suspicious to me. I think after 1-5 white can play 27-24 and 14-17 trade after this should not help you much. What do you think ?

About order of moves .. this information yet is secured and is a property of book team. It will be release along with publishing and delivering book. I don't break any agreement, when I post position standalone here, but order of moves is a great piece of information.

For the same reason I can't tell you even - who played this game, and who had red/white pieces - American or British player. Sorry about this.

But position itself is fantastic. It looks so natural and ... already win (?) for white.

shr wrote:Ed Gilbert: Ed, can you help me with this position ? This is very interesting and important. Correct resolution will help to create another analytical masterpiece.

My personal opinion still the same (unless otherwise prove) - white have a win.

Kingsrow says it is a white win. It cannot see a conclusive win on a single search, so I put the book generator to work on it. After adding about 30 search scores to the book database it can always force play into a position where the search score is better than -140.